ports/136179: msgfmt from gettext port should have runtime dependency on glib

Graham Menhennitt graham at menhennitt.com.au
Tue Jun 30 04:30:02 UTC 2009


>Number:         136179
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       msgfmt from gettext port should have runtime dependency on glib
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 30 04:30:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Graham Menhennitt
>Release:        7.2-Stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
On a clean installation of FreeBSD 7.2-Stable, attempting to install various ports that use the msgfmt program from port devel/gettext-0.17_1 (e.g. databases/postgresql83-server) will fail. This is because msgfmt uses libglib-2.0.so.0 which comes from port devel/glib20. However glib20 is not a dependency of gettext.
>How-To-Repeat:
- install FreeBSD 7.2 including the ports collection
- cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql83-server
- make install

The make will fail with:
  Shared object "libglib-2.0.so.0" not found
>Fix:
Make devel/gettext depend on devel/glib20

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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